Tuesday, August 7, 2007

My name is Kirk Bloodsworth, and my case was the first capital conviction case in the United States to be overturned through DNA testing. I was exonerated in 1993 after spending almost nine years in prison, including two on death row, for a crime I did not commit.

Eyewitness misidentification played a pivotal role in my conviction and is now a major issue in the case of Georgia death row inmate, Troy Davis. In Davis’ case, seven of the nine eyewitnesses have recanted or contradicted their original testimony. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will review his case on August 9 but he faces execution.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp—author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns …

[YouTube video] "HE HAS NO IDEA HOW BAD IT IS OUT THERE! HE HAS NO IDEA! HE HAS NO IDEA! I HAVE TALKED TO THE HEADS OF ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE FIRMS IN THE LAST 72 HOURS..."Thanks Federal Reserve...

aqk notes an article in the Aug. 6th New Yorker surveying the spam problem up-to-date. The New Yorker may not be exactly the MSM, but it is pretty influential. The author got only one fact wrong that I noticed: Canter and Siegel's seminal spam was propagated through Usenet and not email. Still,…

Have you ever been drawn to the calm beauty of abandoned buildings, or even tempted to explore forbidden structures in the urban landscape? For some, urban exploration is a hobby or even a mission. Here is the Beginner’s Guide to Adventures in Building Infiltration.

Six Apart's problems go far deeper than censoring Harry Potter fans. Live Journal founder Brad Fitzpatrick seems about to jump ship and they may be looking for a buyer for the company. Apparently it's not only their users they can't communicate with. "Expect more drama nonstop, and…

When Nintendo took down the Shopping Channel for 3 hours earlier we knew something was up, it now seems that Nintendo updated the firmware on the Wii to include many small but nice features and even according to anecdotal evidence increase the speed of the UI. Also updated is the Wii Shopping…

They blamed Scientology (claiming that they had turned up on the religion’s radar through Blake’s work with Beck). They said that agents of Scientology (among these they included, Tom Cruise, Beck & others) had been following them in public and keeping them out of the movie business behind…

eldavojohn writes "Guess who owns the patent on the touch-screen keyboard. Not Apple — SP Technologies has filed a suit based on just that. Ars brings out the intriguing detail that the founder of the patent troll company is serving prison time for health-care fraud." Read on for four…

All the blogs in the Technorati Top 20 list of popular blogs fail the well-known W3C Markup Validation test. This probably means that complying to the W3C standards is not a priority for the most popular content creators on the planet.

You’ve shopped at GameStop before – or if not, you’ve visited an EB Games, I’m sure. Close enough. The latter is, after all, owned by GameStop now. My first “real” job was working for a local GameStop at my mall.

for a second time, ABC News has played fast and loose with reporting the results of its own polls showing Ron Paul winning a Republican Presidential debate ... the American people need to know about this, and I'm going to help by teaching my class about this in the Fall

About a month ago, Florida State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign in the Sunshine State, ran into a little trouble with the law. He was arrested in a public park after allegedly offering to pay to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer. Not a good…

In a radio interview right-wing columnist Robert Novak stated: “I don’t support this administration,” he said. “The president’s cut me off the list of conservative columnists that are invited there.” He added, “They consider me a lot of trouble."

How to Know If You’re a Digital Packrat: 1) you feel that you should keep a lot of files “just in case”; 2) it takes you too long to find stuff; 3) your digital life is becoming complicated, with multiple email accounts, drives, storage mediums and either a mess of files or a mess of folders.…

Whenever scandals break, the rest of us shake our heads and ask, "What were they thinking?" When we are excited or angry, it is difficult to think about the consequences of our behavior -- outcomes that are glaringly obvious when we are in a cold emotional state. Many health resolutions,…

johannacw writes "This story has in-depth info about managing Macs using Apple's Managed Preferences architecture. It covers how to use the 14 built-in systems-management areas, how preferences interact, how to secure workstations, and how to help users access resources including…

I didn't make this AMV - it is just a favorite of mine that I found at animemusicvideos.org. Go there for more! This is Hello Kitty footage set to the dance version of the Mortal Kombat theme. I know it sounds weird, but check it out!

Nov. 13th 1909, disaster at Cherry IL. Coal mine.In remembrance to the 259 miner's who lost their lives I have assembled this video. Find out more about this story at:http://guitarjourney.tripod.com/cherrycoalminedisaster Every November on the second Sunday the town has special doings including…

Britain battling to contain foot-and-mouth outbreakAmid an almost military-style operation to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in England the EU has banned all exports of live animals from most of the UK. The discovery was made on a farm in Surrey, south of London. It sparked an…

Alarm Caller... CALLS YOU in an Emergency This amazing two in one product will instantly inform you by phone, wherever you are, that urgent help is needed. Or when used as a burgular alarm will phone you instantly when movement is detected. HOW CLEVER It automatically calls for help up to 30 metres…

During the raid on the prison in Jericho , soldiers forced the detainees to undress and led them in their underwear through the prison grounds. They then made the detainees sit naked and blindfolded on damp mattresses and exposed to the sun. Whoever moved was beaten. B'Tselem and Physicians for…

In this our first battlefield2 video we'ld like to show you how helo tv-guided-missile shoots down a dogflying F-15 and another aircraft which is trying to kill us. Thanks to our phantom clan :"Luuuff". To be continued...

"This clip shows 4 sequences: A night in the house of Nazeeha, a widow in Hebron, with the noise made by the soldiers on her rooftop. Part of this sequence is about 3 in the morning; A statement by the IDF Commader for Hebron, Ygal Sharon, a short sequence with Moshe Ya'alon, and a sequence…